Cliffsnotes on Crane's the Red Badge of Courage

by Patrick J. Salerno

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764585797
• ISBN13: 9780764585791
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

The Red Badge of Courage Review

These Cliff Notes on The Red Badge of Courage were a great help on a project I had to do for school. I didn't have much time and the project was worth a lot of points. With this at hand, I finished the report with all the qualifications, topics and details I needed. If you're in a hurry to read this book or you don't understand it well, get this book.

"A Must Read"

I liked this book, even though i hate to read. I find very few books interesting. This was one book i found interesting! Another "Must Read" is "They Cage The Animals At Night" by Jennings Michael Burch. If you liked this book I garentee you will like the cage book. Also The red badge of courage is easy to read im only 13 and in 7th grade and i read it in 4 days! And trust me im not that smart! :)

I loved this book! The message is extremly important.

This book is one that i picked to read for 11th grade english. I too, picked it because it was short, however it was the BEST book i have ever had to read. Henry Fleming struggles with the same day to day struggles that we teenagers do, confusion, happiness, the feeling that we are right, the feelign we are wrong. Life is a rollercoaster when you are young and Henry has to deal with this and being invovled in the civil war. Some people may be looking for an easy way out, and will say this book was boring and hard to understand,(its not, esp. if your in an ap class or have any brains at all) but it is those people who will never get the full meaning of this book. I recomend it to any student and any person.

Summarization of Civil war classic novel

This review book was adequate. It did it's job. It's sole purpose is to summarize Crane's novel about the Civil war. In reading more about Crane, we learn that he was an American novelist and poet who was known for.... "his pessimistic and often brutal portrayals of the human condition, but his stark realism is relieved by charm and sympathetic understanding of character"......... Although this review book does summarize each chapter (I read each chapter of the review book before I subsequently read each chapter of the book, so I knew what to expect) it cannot do justice NOR take the place of reading the actual words of Crane. His book is magnificent and his skill at manipulating words is extraordinary. I read and reread savoring the descriptiveness of each sentence. His genius is that he had never experienced military service or the ordeals of combat which he so wonderfully describes here. His experience as a correspondent during the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 are perhaps the basis for his knowledge about the terrors which face a soldier. Please read each and every sentence and study them intently. They are so perfect in their construction that I could ably picture all the scenes he described. I am curious now to view a film (which I heard was made of this book). This review book is good, but don't avoid reading the actual book itself, because you will have missed a great experience. Kathryn in New York City